Traveling Through: Selected Poems by Eveline Landau Kanes

“Let’s not abandon memory.” In Traveling Through Eveline Kanes invites us to share aspects of her life’s journey. In poems that capture poignant moments of family life, that explore her encounters with art and artists, and that record her experience over many years of a range of places and of events in the natural world, her gift for precise observation and shrewd reflection illuminates and provokes. Her poems are brief and vivid, the thought generous and compassionate, and her language scrupulous and deft, chosen (in her phrase) “with infinite care.”

–Michael Warren, University of California, Santa Cruz

These poems, selected from the work of Eveline Kanes, are a collection of rich images recording events and impressions of a woman of insight, taste and intelligence who has traveled far in an eventful life. Ms. Kanes takes us along as she retraces her steps from childhood in pre-War Germany through England and France before reaching her ultimate destination in contemporary northern California. Along the way we meet important family members and friends, and numerous works of art, music and literature
and their creators. We join her in visits to interesting places; we reflect with her on events of note. With grace and style, these poems are a string of lovely verbal charms on a bracelet of fond memories.
–Ernest Scatton, Emeritus Professor (University at Albany, NY)